Breakdown of Gelecek yıldan itibaren yıllık izin politikası değişecek.
gelecek
next
yıl
year
değişmek
to change (intransitive, undergo change)
izin
permission, leave
itibaren
starting from, as of
politika
policy
yıllık
annual, yearly
Questions & Answers about Gelecek yıldan itibaren yıllık izin politikası değişecek.
Why is the ablative suffix -dan attached to yıl before itibaren?
The postposition itibaren (starting from / as of) always requires the preceding noun to be in the ablative case (-dan/-den). Here, yıl (year) takes -dan to become yıldan itibaren (starting from the year).
Wait, isn't gelecek the future tense suffix? How is it used as 'next' here?
You're right that -ecek/-acak is the future tense suffix (as seen in değişecek at the end of the sentence). However, the word gelecek (from the verb gelmek, meaning 'that which will come') is also used as a standalone adjective meaning 'next' or 'future'. So gelecek yıl simply means 'next year'.
Yıl appears again as yıllık. What does the -lık suffix do here?
The suffix -lık (or -lik, -luk, -lük) often creates adjectives from nouns. By adding it to yıl (year), we get yıllık, which turns the noun into the adjective 'yearly' or 'annual'.
Why does politika have the -sı suffix at the end?
It is part of a noun compound. İzin politikası is a compound meaning 'leave policy'. When joining two nouns to create a specific concept, Turkish requires the second noun to take a possessive suffix (here, -sı). The adjective yıllık (annual) simply describes that entire compound.
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